Category Archives: Black History

Hundreds are expected to gather on Windrush Square in Brixton, South London, on Tuesday, 8 May 2018, to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Allied Victory (over the Luftwaffe) in Europe, also known as VE Day. The significant role that … Continue reading →

Black History Month (BHM) has become established since its introduction in Britain 30 years ago. Prime Minister Theresa May held a BHM event in 10 Downing Street, whilst London Mayor Sadiq Khan marked the end of the Month with a … Continue reading →

Thousands are expected to gather in Windrush Square in Brixton, South London, on Thursday, June 22 for the unveiling of a memorial to commemorate the two million African and Caribbean military servicemen and women who served in World War I … Continue reading →

The African and Caribbean War Memorial is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, to specifically honour Commonwealth soldiers from Africa and the Caribbean who fought alongside British troops and their Allies in World War I and World … Continue reading →

In Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), the British author and journalist Rebecca West wrote:“It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of a skunk.” 2017 could very well be the Year of the … Continue reading →

Since the publication, in 1992, of Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah’s In my father’s house: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, the new discipline of Critical Philosophy of Race has flourished among anglophone analytic philosophers. Yet, Critical Philosophers of Race have … Continue reading →

The United States has come a long way since the days when twelve of her former presidents owned slaves; eight of them while in office. The paradigm shifted irrevocably, however, when an African-American, Barack Hussein Obama, was elected the country’s … Continue reading →

As Jamaica celebrates her 50th anniversary of Independence, author, historian and BBC radio producer Colin Grant celebrates a half-century of musical accomplishments, which helped put the island on the map, broadcast on BBC Radio 6 Music. Sunday, 5th August at … Continue reading →

As Jamaica gets ready to celebrate her 50th anniversary of Independence, Colin Grant turns his thoughts to those migrants who left the island, and set sail for England, around the same time. His father happened to be among the number. … Continue reading →

The 2008 Imperial War Museum exhibition From War to Windrush was intended to recover and commemorate, as the exhibition text stated, “the contribution of Black men and women from the Caribbean and Britain during the First and Second World Wars”.

The Windrush Foundation Project director Arthur Torrington has criticised The Department for Communities and Local Government and the Big Lottery Fund for rejecting a national memorial day for slavery whilst providing around half a million pounds annually to Holocaust history … Continue reading →

More than 177 years ago, a human hurricane hit the British colony of Jamaica in the form of a major slave rebellion resulting in the deaths of 14 white people, 544 enslaved Africans, and property damage worth over one million … Continue reading →

Tomorrow, at 9pm, BBC 2 will celebrate Black History Month by focusing on the mixed race community but will the BBC explore the issues of mixed race relationships and mixed race children from all angles, or will it just be … Continue reading →

Tulsa, Oklahoma remains a remarkable place of immense black historical perspective. It was here that the most affluent African-American community lived with their own doctors, lawyers and over 600 businesses; and made such a success of their town that it … Continue reading →